I will most likely be upgrading to 5pro when it comes out, and for now will have to deal with the materials as I have been. I will try the Material Summary as well. For anyone else who may have the same problems, one way I found to get rid of those extra materials is to copy another material that the object does use onto it and it collapses them down to one. Just keep doing that for all the unwanted to materials. Thanks for the help Agiel. Ps - if anyone does have info on why vue does those things as stated in the first post, I'd love to know. :)